Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@lukeburgis The deepest layer of reality isn't 'stuff' but articulated relation. Spirit is existence in eternal conversation—first cause and final cause voiced as truth sounded. Every truthful word freely spoken aligns us with the Word by which all things cohere and tend toward resurrection.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 2 Oct 2025

@BretVDB @malcolmguite 1/3 Speech is causal, consequential, covenantal. Our Sages insist that words are not merely sounds but acts of creation whose weight accumulates across time, seeding either resurrection or ruin. Life and death, of persons and worlds, dwell in the power of the tongue.

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Quoted by@MichaelSau82441 @FrontPorchRepub @jeff_bilbro 5/ Messianic speech, as such, is resurrection entering history as summons. The Word becomes flesh; flesh becomes a new form of life; that life finds language. Arising from the foothold the future has gained in history, its address draws more of history into Incarnation.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @magistrabeck Me, too! And though cattywampus and lollygag never claimed me, I'd add pecksniff, balderdash, codswallop. What do I miss about the Old World? Recognition of language itself as a public, participatory medium of beauty and delight. A depth realm landing as the unfenced kiss of God.Quoted by@magistrabeck Me, too! And though cattywampus and lollygag never claimed me, I'd add pecksniff, balderdash, codswallop. What do I miss about the Old World? Recognition of language itself as a public, participatory medium of beauty and delight. A depth realm landing as the unfenced kiss of God.